Sentence examples for class portrait from inspiring English sources

It's a class portrait of architects who've put corporate marketing strategy where imagination ought to be.

As young fencers clashed swords beforehand, models silently lined up as if for a class portrait.

Old family photos line the wall: Mr. Huang's grandparents playing mah-jongg, his mother's kindergarten class portrait.

The other day, Mr. Head strolled among his seedlings, arranged in dozens of little plastic tubs of different heights and sizes, looking like a class portrait of young trees.

Yet another striking icon, painted on a squarish, 15-inch panel in the late 18th or early 19th century, represents 118 golden-haloed saints arranged as if on bleachers for a class portrait, with an image of the main church of the Monastery of the Caves held up by angels in the center.

One of the most eloquent photographs of the neurasthenic aesthete as a young man is an all-boy class portrait that seems to date from his last year at the Lycée Lamoricière, in Oran, and for which he has removed his glasses.

The class portraits that line that very same corridor tell the opposite tale.

He was a perfectly competent commercial photographer -- architecture, class portraits, shipbuilding -- whose other extant pictures are reportedly undistinguished or even dull.

In the days after the collapse, veterans and volunteers managed to retrieve decades of local history from the wreckage, including scores of high school class portraits dating to the 1930s.

Former Senator John Edwards touched on the quality of the lives of those perched precariously above the abyss of poverty in his foreword to the book, "The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near-Poor in America," by Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen.

The responsibility to be the custodian of the art projects, class portraits and endless anecdotes about The Time You Got Locked in the Bathroom and The Time You Threw Up on the Way to the Airport can feel burdensome, but it's an important obligation.